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ESL StarCraft II invitational announced (41 comments)

( Major News: SC2)

Posted by Zerter @ 11:06 CDT, 17 March 2010 - iMsg

Scheduled: 11:00 CDT, 19 March 2010 to 16:00 CDT, 19 March 2010
Schedule: Passed

The Electronic Sports League has announced a StarCraft II invitational featuring 16 of Europe's finest players which is to take place upcoming Friday at 11:00 CDT and is estimated to last roughly five hours.

The tournament will consist of a single elimination bracket with best-of-three matches, excluding the finals which will be best-of-five. At stake in the event is 200€ as well as five beta keys which will be raffled away among viewers. The matches will be streamed by ESL TV and provided with German commentary.

Final:

Lucifron 3-0

Liquid`Nazgul (Replay)

Players list

Links: Brackets including Replays, ESL TV

Edited by xou at 12:34 CDT, 20 March 2010 - 13989 Hits

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<< Comment #1 @ 11:10 CDT, 17 March 2010 >>

By

Bluder

Carl Stefan "MorroW" Andersson :'(

<< Comment #2 @ 11:11 CDT, 17 March 2010 >>

By

vedic

as well as five beta keys which will be raffled away among viewers

haha, sneaky way to get viewers =P

<< Comment #3 @ 11:21 CDT, 17 March 2010 >>

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ZeritoN - Reply to #2

I better not have to make a twitter account or some shit like that to enter the key raffle... ¬¬

<< Comment #5 @ 11:22 CDT, 17 March 2010 >>

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vedic - Reply to #3

I wouldn't expect it too much, since there will likely be over 1000 viewers, and just 5 keys.

<< Comment #4 @ 11:21 CDT, 17 March 2010 >>

By

kvark

Nice! I´ll watch some games for sure!

<< Comment #6 @ 11:22 CDT, 17 March 2010 >>

By

Kaide

somehow I feel something taking over quakelive...

<< Comment #7 @ 11:24 CDT, 17 March 2010 >>

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2GD - Reply to #6

i dont think quakelive and sc2 will compete on esl tv

<< Comment #29 @ 15:10 CDT, 17 March 2010 >>

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MadLag - Reply to #7

why u and joe dont cast some sc2 ?? i bet even if u dont know much about game ppl would still like it ! :D

<< Comment #8 @ 11:37 CDT, 17 March 2010 >>

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vedic

btw strelok is ukraine and haypro/naugrim are sweden

Edited by vedic at 11:38 CDT, 17 March 2010

<< Comment #9 @ 11:44 CDT, 17 March 2010 >>

By

KekS - Reply to #8

already fixed :p

<< Comment #10 @ 11:45 CDT, 17 March 2010 >>

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p4r4

Commentary will be german or english?

Edited by p4r4 at 11:45 CDT, 17 March 2010

<< Comment #11 @ 11:46 CDT, 17 March 2010 >>

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lolvc

you fail to mention that it's german commentary

or is it going to be english this time?

Edited by warpVc at 11:48 CDT, 17 March 2010

<< Comment #15 @ 12:00 CDT, 17 March 2010 >>

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ZeritoN - Reply to #11

WAT?

Fuck that shit. I hate having to mute streams with already shitty quality. The commentating is the only reason why I'd watch a shitty stream.

Cba to listen to "SCHNELL SCHNELL DER WARPGATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111"

<< Comment #16 @ 12:03 CDT, 17 March 2010 >>

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lolvc - Reply to #15

I'm not saying it'll definately be German, but the last SC2 ESL stream was German so...

<< Comment #17 @ 12:07 CDT, 17 March 2010 >>

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ZeritoN - Reply to #16

True. Can't even be that hard to get some guys to volunteer to do it. Tons of people already commentating demo's on youtube that are actually fairly decent that I'm sure would do it for free if asked (not least for the work experience etc).

<< Comment #19 @ 12:09 CDT, 17 March 2010 >>

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lolvc - Reply to #17

http://www.livestream.com/striderdoom <-

this guy seems good, i watched a few

Edited by warpVc at 12:10 CDT, 17 March 2010

<< Comment #20 @ 12:09 CDT, 17 March 2010 >>

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vedic - Reply to #17

Someone said that 2GD was learning to cast SC2.

<< Comment #21 @ 12:12 CDT, 17 March 2010 >>

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lolvc - Reply to #20

Jay would be taking too many eggs into his basket :D QL, HoN, SC2, WoW - although to be fair, i enjoy watching all of them (except wow) so.. i'd do the same if given the oppertunity hehe

<< Comment #23 @ 12:14 CDT, 17 March 2010 >>

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ZeritoN - Reply to #21

SC2 looks pretty easy to learn to be honest. I haven't even had the chance to play the damn thing, but already know how it works, build orders, units, buildings etc etc from just watching replays

<< Comment #24 @ 12:16 CDT, 17 March 2010 >>

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vedic - Reply to #23

The mechanical skill (APM) barrier is MUCH lower, but there's still a ton of strategy to it.

<< Comment #25 @ 12:17 CDT, 17 March 2010 >>

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ZeritoN - Reply to #24

Yeah that's why I'm probably gonna prefer SC2 over SC1. My APM has always been pretty dismal :D

<< Comment #27 @ 12:22 CDT, 17 March 2010 >>

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f0rk123 - Reply to #11

I twittered one of the head guys last time and he said he was aware of the problem and would fix it for future casts. That last event was done pretty spontaneously I think.

<< Comment #12 @ 11:47 CDT, 17 March 2010 >>

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KekS

PLEASE GIEF LIVESTREAM.COM INSTEAD OF SHITTY ESLTV

PLEASE GIEF PROPER QUALITY SO YOU CAN SEE SOMETHING

PLEASE GET PROPER MODS BEFORE STREAMING

its too important to not use capslock but since they won't listen its going to be one useless pile of steaming shit again

<< Comment #28 @ 12:25 CDT, 17 March 2010 >>

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xou - Reply to #12

who would care about a raging german kid!

<< Comment #13 @ 11:52 CDT, 17 March 2010 >>

By

dem0n

gogogo orly and ret =)

Edited by dem0n at 13:22 CDT, 17 March 2010

<< Comment #14 @ 11:56 CDT, 17 March 2010 >>

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r1ddler

mmm nice line up

<< Comment #18 @ 12:09 CDT, 17 March 2010 >>

By

amOKchen

nazgul, havent seen that name in a long time :O

<< Comment #22 @ 12:13 CDT, 17 March 2010 >>

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ZeritoN

What I'm (slightly) worried about is that there's no Koreans playing. Not a big deal, since they're probably practicing SC1 anyway, but that's where Blizzard are gonna find out if the game can stand the test of time. Right now it's looking more like a WC3 scene

<< Comment #26 @ 12:20 CDT, 17 March 2010 >>

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vedic - Reply to #22

Artosis has done many interviews with korean pros already. Many of them are playing it, but they alias.

<< Comment #30 @ 15:17 CDT, 17 March 2010 >>

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MadLag - Reply to #22

that beta restriction, im not sure that even if koreans used eu beta they would pass auth to the server ; // (+ pings could be pretty bad)

<< Comment #31 @ 15:57 CDT, 17 March 2010 >>

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vedic - Reply to #30

idra has played in ZOTAC while borrowing euro accounts, and there weren't any ping problems.

<< Comment #33 @ 01:40 CDT, 18 March 2010 >>

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ZeritoN - Reply to #30

Yeah but that's what I don't get. Blizzard not sending Korean beta keys when that's been their only SC market for a looooooong time

<< Comment #34 @ 03:59 CDT, 18 March 2010 >>

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MadLag - Reply to #33

they have their own beta + im pretty sure most of pro gamers get theirs keys (but there comes kespa and blizzard issue so the chances of seeing some sc1 pro atm are rather low ; ///)

<< Comment #36 @ 04:43 CDT, 18 March 2010 >>

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ZeritoN - Reply to #34

Yeah just saw that they had their own servers from reading TL article on stats for the beta.

<< Comment #32 @ 17:26 CDT, 17 March 2010 >>

By

Xsi

No poles? Why? Tarson should be included :/

<< Comment #35 @ 04:41 CDT, 18 March 2010 >>

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Anonymous (natsj.edb.se)

I hope Insomnia winns this :)
/hazter

<< Comment #37 @ 05:24 CDT, 18 March 2010 >>

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anal justice - Reply to #35

me too :)

<< Comment #38 @ 11:19 CDT, 18 March 2010 >>

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kvark

All the swedes in 1/4 of the bracket =(

..Strelok has a pretty crazy name :D

<< Comment #40 @ 13:03 CDT, 19 March 2010 >>

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p4r4 - Reply to #38

Er... his name is Evgeniy Oparyshev, not "Dreivenievgen Kostyantinovich" which makes no sense at all.

<< Comment #39 @ 19:19 CDT, 18 March 2010 >>

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JayDee_

I don't see a lot of players using the warp prism. Why not? Reaver/storm drops were my favorite moves back in the day.

Edited by JayDee_ at 19:20 CDT, 18 March 2010

<< Comment #41 @ 04:28 CDT, 20 March 2010 >>

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KekS

Modified the post and added the real link to the Brackets

NOTE: You can find the replays by clicking on the vs for each match.

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